C. K. Janu is the leader of the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha that grew out of the Dalit-Adivasi Action Council in Kerala state, a social movement that has been pushing for land to be redistributed to landless adivasis .C K Janu is spearheading the struggle of Kerala's 3.5 lakh landless adivasis (tribals). In 2001, C.K. Janu launched an agitation that propelled a tribal movement for land to the centre-stage of political discourse in Kerala.